5 09 Africa Vocab Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
developing country | a poor county whose citizens mostly work in agriculture |
life expectancy | the average number of years a person from a certain group lives |
natural resource | naturally occurring materials that can be used by humans |
scarcity | inadequate supply or shortage |
civil war | fight between different groups within a country |
colony | overseas territory or settlement tied to a parent country |
coral reef | structure formed by the skeletons of small sea animals |
deforestation | widespread cutting of forests |
desertification | process by which grass lands change to deserts |
drought | long period of extreme dryness and water shortages |
genocide | mass murder of a people because of their race,religion, ethnicity, politics, or culture |
immigrant | person who moves to a new country to make a permanent home |
imperialism | system o building foreign empires for military and trade advantages |
indigenous | native to or originating from a place |
industrialized country | to change an economy to rely more on manufacturing and less on farming |
literacy rate | percentage of people who can read and write |
refugee | person who flees to another country to void persecution or disaster |
savanna | broad grassland with few trees, found in the tropics |
subsistence farm | small plot where a farmer grows only enough food feed his own family |
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